Everybody loves webcasts, right? While some may view webcasts as these kids in Ferris Bueller's class, others love the on-demand technical education available via this popular medium.
In an attempt to appeal to the second group, Samtec is pleased to announce a new Chalk Talk On-Demand Webcast focused on our expanding high-performance backplane connector portfolio.
Enabling Next-Gen System Design: Samtec High-Speed Backplane Systems
In this new webcast, Jonathan Sprigler, Samtec … [Read more...]

In the days of old we looked into the "green" for guidance on how much further down into the world of miniaturization we could go. What is the green you ask? I am talking about the substrate that has served us all well for many years; the PCB.
We are at a crossroads in the world of substrates, and honestly we are at a point where we need something new, a different way of addressing miniaturization and higher speeds.
What are my options?
The printed circuit board has come a long way from … [Read more...]

Chris Shelly, Samtec’s RF/SI Modeling Engineer, walks us through a live 12G-SDI transmission line demonstration at NAB 2019. This demo showcases the signal processing capabilities of the Phabrix® QX UHDTV 12G-SDI generator/analyzer and the transmission of those signals through several other Samtec 75 ohm PCB connectors and cable assemblies.
The Phabrix QX is generating a 12G-SDI signal, through two Samtec right-angle BNC connectors, and back into the Phabrix QX for analysis. We get a good … [Read more...]

Samtec Bulls Eye® test point systems are ideal for high-performance test applications because of their compression interfaces, small footprint, and high cycle count capabilities. Bulls Eye is now available in 50 GHz and 20 GHz designs, with a system up to 70 GHz in development.
Bulls Eye is a popular product because:
The grid design and smaller footprint enables smaller evaluation boards and shorter trace lengths. The high-density array design significantly saves PCB space compared to … [Read more...]

Readers of the Samtec blog are familiar with the benefits of FMC and FMC+. These popular interfaces define a compact electro-mechanical expansion interface for a daughter card to an FPGA baseboard or other device with re-configurable I/O capability.
VITA 57.1 has been around for some time. It supports 10 full-duplex transceivers running at 10 Gbps. The new VITA 57.4 standard defines two new connectors. Combined, they offer 32 full-duplex transceivers running at 28 Gbps.
New … [Read more...]

Edge Rate®, one of Samtec’s most popular high speed, high bandwidth interconnect systems, also saves space on your PCB.
Edge Rate is both the name of the contact system and the product family. The contact system is designed for high speed, high cycle, rugged applications.
With some connectors, the mating edge of the contact is the
cut edge of the pin (but not Edge Rate!). If you look at the edge of the pin under
a microscope you may see micro burrs and edges. This reduces the life of … [Read more...]

Long Reach Backplane Cable
This live demonstration from DesignCon 2019 shows how Samtec's ExaMAX® backplane connector, combined with Samtec Flyover® technology, achieves high density and very long reach. Here, the reach is five meters for a rack-to-rack interconnect system.
In this video, Samtec's Gustavo Blando walks us through the topology and discusses system performance.
Samtec Flyover systems can be used in mid-board applications to achieve next gen speeds with longer reach … [Read more...]

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